New Senior Editor on Live Team

When the Election Analytics desk was seeking a volunteer for a 14-hour shift on Election Day that would entail being in the trenches with the team until 4 a.m., Brian Josephs's hand shot straight up. And that's just one of numerous examples of his can-do attitude. Since joining the Flex desk in June 2022, he has built a reputation for eagerly rising to any challenge.

That's a trait that will no doubt serve him well on the Live team, where he will now take on the role of a senior live editor based in New York.

"Brian has been the ultimate jack of all trades on the Flex desk pretty much since he arrived at The Times four years ago," said Pete Blair, the founder of the Flex desk. "Breaking news or enterprise, editing or reporting, morning or night - he's done it all. And he has won fans wherever we've sent him. There isn't a desk he's filled in on that hasn't asked to either extend his time there or work with him again."

Jessica Schnall, editor of the Flex desk, said: " He's highly communicative and unflappable on deadline, and his bedside manner makes him an absolute delight to work with."

During his time on Flex, he edited coverage of the Ukraine war for International, handled many obituaries and worked on dispatches from the Qatar World Cup. As he was sent around the newsroom, the length of his assignments grew to include a holiday season run as an editor on Culture and a monthslong tenure handling breaking news as a night editor on Express. Brian's most recent calling card has been the midterm elections.

Throughout, he has found ways to contribute consistently to Live and we could not be more excited for him to join the team fulltime.

A graduate of Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Brian previously worked as a script writer and copy editor at Vice News. There, he lent a hand to reporting on the opening weeks of the war in Ukraine, the mental toll of the killing of African Americans and Haiti's collapse before the assassination of its president. He left with four Emmy awards.

Please join us in welcoming Brian to Live.

- Julie Bloom, Andy Das, Randy Pennell and Maggie Adams